Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a…

Susan Sontag
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Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph. ✨ Susan Sontag (1978). On photography, Delta
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It is not the position, but the disposition.
Surrealism is a bourgeois disaffection; that its militants thought it universal is only one of the signs that it is typically bourgeois. ✨ Susan Sontag (2011). On Photography, p.49, Macmillan
The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent of persons. ✨ Christine Allison, Susan Sontag (1978). The bene … ▶
My urge to write is an urge not to self-expressionism but to self-transcendence. My work is both bigger and smaller than I am.
Instead of expecting all and being lowered into despair each time I get less, I expect nothing now and, occasionally, I get a little, and am more than a little happy. ✨ Susan Sontag (2009). Reborn: J … ▶

Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph. ✨ Susan Sontag (1978). On photography, Delta

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